Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped $549,622,946 and $372,261,953 into the state. Would he have preferred that Stennis, who sits on the appropriations committees for both departments, oppose such appropriations for his own state...
...young voters for the President who attended the Republican Convention, I resent your biased and mistaken view of us as "carefully coached" cheerleaders taking part in "youth-led demonstrations timed to the minute." We were there because we love and respect Mr. Nixon, and our demonstrations were spontaneous and sincere...
...both the risks and the results. Those who survive face a painful awakening when the anesthetic wears off. They come to in the hospital's intensive care unit, surrounded by machinery to help them breathe and with tubes coming out of their noses, mouths and other orifices. Some resent this depersonalizing dependence upon technology and remain depressed until they are returned to their rooms. By contrast, others fear being disconnected from the machines. "It's like being pushed out of the nest," said one patient. "You have...
...Democrat, I resent Senator McGovern's telling me that because I have been a "traditional" Democrat, I will "come home again" and vote for him. I feel positions in Government and elsewhere should be won on the basis of merit, not quotas. I have been against quotas for Jews in medical schools, government, banks, etc.; I am still against quotas...
Welcome Nowhere. Despite the Asians' distress, Amin's decision was obviously popular with the country's 10 million Africans, who generally resent the Asians for their relative-if still modest-wealth, their clannishness and sharp business practices, and their historic stranglehold on the wholesale and retail trades. "The British brought the Asians here to exploit us," cried one African speaker at a demonstration in Kampala. "They keep us in economic slavery." Amin himself accused the Asians of everything from sneaking money out of the country to keeping their account books in Hindi and Gujarati to confuse...